SUTURES

Your veterinarian has just sutured your horse’s wound and is headed back down the driveway. The healing process is off to a good start, but now it’s up to you to keep it on track.

In the coming days, your primary goal is to keep the sutures clean and dry. Water can not only carry pathogens into the wound, it can also soften and weaken the suture material, causing it to fail. You’ll need to clean a sutured wound only if it has visible debris on